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Pelham, Henry (1696–1754) (1696–1754)British Whig statesman, Prime Minister (1743–54). After serving in Sir Robert Walpole's Cabinet from 1721 onwards, he replaced him as Premier, and introduced a period of peace and prosperity by bringing to an end the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–48).
Henry Pelham (25 September 1694–6 March 1754) was a British Whig statesman. He was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 27 August 1743 to his death about ten years later. This short article about a person or group of people can be made longer.
Henry Pelham was arguably one of Britain’s most successful Prime Ministers, if not one of the best-known. He has perhaps been over-shadowed in historical retrospect by his brother, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle. Newcastle outlived his younger brother by 14 years and his neurotic yet engaging personality has tended to distract the attention of historians...
Felix opportunitate mortis, Henry Pelham, ‘that often underrated minister’, died unexpectedly 6 Mar. 1754, on the eve of the general election for which he had been preparing, the first prime minister who ‘had the honour of dying a commoner’.
Henry Pelham FRS (25 September 1694 – 6 March 1754) was a British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1743 until his death in 1754. He was the younger brother of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, who served in Pelham's government and succeeded him as prime mi
Abstract. Henry Pelham is invariably listed as Britain’s third Prime Minister, but a case can certainly be made that he was virtually the second, given the ineffectiveness of his predecessor as First Lord of the Treasury, the Earl of Wilmington (see Chapter 2). The offspring of a landed family based mainly in Sussex, which had sent ...
Henry was the 2nd son of Sir Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham of Laughton, and younger brother of the statesman Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle under Lyne. Like his brother, he was educated at Westminster School before attending Oxford. Henry soon entered politics, becoming M.P. for Seaford, Sussex in 1717 (a seat arranged for him by ...
